Get the data!

Our data is here

https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/pub/data/weather/uk/climate/stationdata/sheffielddata.txt

Sheffield Weather Station in Western Park

Now i am going to visualise some data

Static plot

Animated plot!

This uses gganimate

https://gganimate.com/

ROLL OVER INTERACTIVE PLOT

This uses plotly

https://plotly.com/ggplot2/

Conclusion

It is nice to make animated plots, but they can distract as well as grab attention. Make sure the purpose of making the plot is served by adding animation.

Colophon

Find the repo for this project here https://github.com/tomstafford/station